Throughout Europe, the increasing demand on performance proofs from public bodies, construction leaders and end customers motivates manufacturers to communicate on the global environmental performance of their products. In parallel, there is a strong willingness of data transparency and credibility, so that accredited standardisation organisations have been working on defining more restrictive rules for the display of the environmental impacts of products.
Several ways exist to answer this need: type III environmental labelling (FDES1, IBU2, EPDs3 for the building equipment, PEP Ecopassport® programme4 for the EEE5. However, methodological differences remained a limitation to assess the global life cycle impact of a building.